Steve Jenson's blog

Posing nude for a magazine.

Posing nude for a magazine.

[Re-magazine] is a Dutch-based, English-language 'magazine about just one person'. They pick someone, a rather ordinary person, and make the whole magazine about him or her. The latest issue is about Hester, a failed London screenplay writer (and already narrative is in crisis, right in the foreground) aged 37. There are interviews with Hester about her depression, her feelings of fatigue and frustration with London, there's a photoshoot on Hungerford Bridge, a trip to her mother's house in the countryside, an interview with her more go-getting (but less likeable) sister about her, a discussion between Hester and her mother, who also went to art school and has always been rather competitive with Hester. Re-Magazine have taken the format of the usual magazine and turned it around. [...]
[found here via Robert Sayre]

# — 25 December, 2004